{"id":695092,"date":"2026-04-03T02:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695092\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:13:58","slug":"miles-bridges-scores-25-kon-knueppel-sets-hornets-record-for-threes-in-a-season-in-rout-of-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695092\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Bridges scores 25, Kon Knueppel sets Hornets record for threes in a season in rout of Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Miles Bridges<\/a> scored 25 points, rookie Kon Knueppel<\/a> set a franchise record for 3-pointers in a season and finished with 20 points as the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> rolled past the Phoenix Suns<\/a> 127-107 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Coby White<\/a> added 19 points and LaMelo Ball<\/a> had 15 points and 11 assists for the Hornets, who have won seven of nine. Brandon Miller<\/a> added 17 points.<\/p>\n

Knueppel, the No. 4 overall pick from Duke, made four 3s to give him 261, breaking the previous record of 260 set by Kemba Walker<\/a> in the 2018-19 season. Knueppel broke the record with a corner 3 after missing two open looks earlier in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the game, Phoenix\u2019s Collin Gillespie<\/a> set the Suns\u2019 franchise record for 3s in a season, eclipsing the mark of 226 held by Quentin Richardson in the 2004-05 season. Gillespie finished with two 3s and six points.<\/p>\n

Jalen Green<\/a> had 25 points and Devin Booker<\/a> added 22 for the Suns, who have lost six of their past seven road games.<\/p>\n

Both teams entered the night looking to improve their seeding in the play-in tournament.<\/p>\n

The Hornets (41-36) came in in eighth place in the Eastern Conference, two games behind Philadelphia and Toronto, who are tied for sixth. The Suns (42-35) entered in seventh in the West, but 4 1\/2 games behind sixth-place Minnesota.<\/p>\n

The Suns got off to a blazing start, making 17 of 28 from the field to build a 41-33 lead at the end of the first.<\/p>\n

But Charlotte began to take control late in the second as Miller helped build a 66-60 lead the break. The second half was all Hornets as Miller\u2019s 3 early in the third put Charlotte up by 13.<\/p>\n

After Knueppel broke the team\u2019s 3-point record, igniting the home crowd, the Hornets went on a run. Ball found Bridges for an alley-oop dunk. Bridges followed with a corner 3 put Charlotte up by 19.<\/p>\n

Charlotte made 18 of 39 3-point attempts and outrebounded the Suns 47-31.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Suns: At Chicago on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

Hornets: Host Indiana on Friday night. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Steve Reed, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Miles Bridges scored 25 points, rookie Kon Knueppel set a franchise record for 3-pointers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-695092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116338364473137351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}